HISTORY
June 2013
Adam Nicolson's Gentry is a superb survey of the 600-year rise and fall of a class of landed Englishmen
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June 2013
The Taste of Ashes by Marci Shore is a history typical of a modern, intellectual "non-Jewish" Jew, which downplays the impact of the Holocaust
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June 2013
Christian Ingrao's analysis of university-educated SS members is dense but compelling, drawing blurred lines that demarcate good and evil
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June 2013
The Great Reform Bill of 1832 nearly sparked a revolution. Antonia Fraser's history tells the story with tremendous verve
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